and you caring enough to pay it.

Then what a reception!

Red jade cups, food well set, on a blue jewelled table;

And I was drunk, and had no thought of returning;

And you would walk out with me to the western corner of the castle,

To the dynastic temple, with the water about it clear as blue jade,

With boats floating, and the sound of mouth-organs and drums,

With ripples like dragon-scales going grass-green on the water,

Pleasure lasting, with courtezans going and coming without hindrance,

With the willow-flakes falling like snow,